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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 4, 2021 22:14:57 GMT
Two fanciful ship depictions on more German self-adhesives:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 18, 2021 20:28:03 GMT
Today I received the latest issues from the French territories. Here a nice St-Pierre-et-Miquelon issue featuring the Saint-Yves:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 19, 2021 7:28:00 GMT
Among the recent New Caledonia issues, this stamp celebrating the local historical society:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 19, 2021 17:47:46 GMT
A recent issue from French Polynesia commemorating the Ville d'Amiens ship carrying Free French troops in 1940:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jan 30, 2021 18:19:10 GMT
Also in that packet of stamps from Sénégal, this series commemorating the voyages of Christopher Columbus. I wonder if the stamp issuing authority of Sénégal hesitated about these, considering his discovery would lead to the establishment of the transatlantic slave trade, much of which transited through Sénégal.  |
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Post by renden on Jan 31, 2021 17:22:44 GMT
Sénégal 203 - 1961 Pirogues Racing  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Feb 1, 2021 20:05:44 GMT
As every year, there are several naval themes in the 2021 set of TAAF issues:  |
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Post by cursus on Feb 6, 2021 8:31:40 GMT
Equatorial Guinea, 1992. Vicente Yañez Pinzon and ship "Pinta"
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 6, 2021 12:04:21 GMT
Two nice depictions of ships on stamps. Interestingly, my Yvert&Tellier catalog does not list the 500fr. Madagascar issue on the bottom. It comes from a block issued in 1976 for the US bicentennial, however the block is only listed with an overprint, saying "4 JUILLET 1776-1976" inside a curly frame, as BF#7. I do have an imperforate copy of the block without the overprint as well. Likely an oversight in the catalog, I would say.  |
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Post by salentin on Mar 6, 2021 13:14:41 GMT
Possibly a setting-error. Michel (1989 !) list the s.s. as Block 7 and the overprinted version as Block 13.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 7, 2021 20:50:19 GMT
Of course, Ascension Island has its fair share of naval-themed stamps:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 11, 2021 21:08:23 GMT
I had also ordered a small set of Spanish stamps which included one stamp from the airmail Caravelle series (showing both the aircraft and the sailing ship it is named after) and the floating expo ship from 1958:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Mar 27, 2021 12:05:58 GMT
Souvenir sheet issued by the Seychelles for the Australia'99 stamp show:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 4, 2021 4:36:57 GMT
From a Chinese 2017 series on scientific research achievements, this stamp featuring an oceanographic research vessel and tools of the trade:  |
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Post by cursus on Apr 4, 2021 7:19:00 GMT
Norway, 1981, tallship Chrsitian Radich. A wonderful engraving by Snorre Morken (second, only, to Master Slania!)
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Post by cursus on Apr 5, 2021 8:43:14 GMT
Switzerland, 1942, 2000 years of Geneva.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 7, 2021 7:15:41 GMT
Received this week, from German Samoa, MiNr. 18, the 3mk dark violet large format stamp featuring the omnipresent Hohenzollern :  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 29, 2021 19:59:11 GMT
A new issue from Spain, this lenticular stamp for the 150 th anniversary of the Santander Regatta Club. The sailboat travels from left to right as you incline the angle of view. The scan does not do it justice.  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on Apr 30, 2021 21:29:35 GMT
A pair of issues from Sénégal in 1976 for the Okinawa Oceanographic Exposition, with the slogan La mer telle que nous l'aimons, "The sea as we like it":  |
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Post by renden on May 7, 2021 13:28:58 GMT
GB Sc # 720  |
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Post by hdm1950 on May 7, 2021 14:30:28 GMT
I am sure that the Canadian Destroyer from the King George VI War Issue (Sc, 262) has been on this thread before. This block of 12 has always intrigued me wondering what the heck could have cost 12.00 to mail in the World War II era. It has a Toronto cancel but no clear date.  |
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Post by renden on May 7, 2021 16:35:00 GMT
I am sure that the Canadian Destroyer from the King George VI War Issue (Sc, 262) has been on this thread before. This block of 12 has always intrigued me wondering what the heck could have cost 12.00 to mail in the World War II era. It has a Toronto cancel but no clear date. Probably the mother-in-law  .....you asked |
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Post by hdm1950 on May 7, 2021 17:19:26 GMT
I am sure that the Canadian Destroyer from the King George VI War Issue (Sc, 262) has been on this thread before. This block of 12 has always intrigued me wondering what the heck could have cost 12.00 to mail in the World War II era. It has a Toronto cancel but no clear date. Probably the mother-in-law .....you asked I see a block of 10 recently sold on eBay renden . Probably sent off one of the kids..  |
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Post by salentin on May 8, 2021 17:37:00 GMT
issued Feb.29th,1968; (from a set of 2)
More than 300 of those trawlers,where fish was caught,processed,deep-frozen and packed,were
exported.Mainly to the UssR,Romania and Cuba.
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 12, 2021 19:39:09 GMT
I am no longer subscribing to the new Monaco issues, but did order a few of the 2021 ones which were of topical interest to me. Among them, the set of issues for the centennial of Prince Albert I er, whose real passion was oceanography:  |
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Post by hrdoktorx on May 17, 2021 20:11:50 GMT
I also received two new Hohenzollern German colonial issues, from Cameroon and Samoa:  |
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Post by renden on May 17, 2021 21:40:47 GMT
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Post by salentin on May 19, 2021 17:15:12 GMT
The vessel was put into service in Sweden 1925 under the name of "Gripsholm". It was the first North-Atlantic -Liner driven by Diesel-engines.
During the war Sweden gave the "Gripsholm" to the International Committee of the Red Cross for humanitarian services.
After the war she served on the Göteborg-New York line.
Modernized in 1949/50 she was sold in 1955 to the "Norddeutsche Lloyd" shipping company and renamed to "Berlin".
The Berlin ran on the Bremerhaven-New York line.
However the ship was to slow to be competitive with modern liners.She was then used for cruises.
In 1966 the ship was put out of service and scrapped.
Stamps issued March 12th,1955.
p.s.: If I am not completely wrong these stamps are the only ones of (West-) Berlin,inscribed "Landespost Berlin".
Earliar ones were inscribed "Deutsche Post" or "Deutsche Post Berlin",later ones "Deutsche Bundespost Berlin".
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Post by salentin on May 27, 2021 17:50:03 GMT
One of the earliast purpose-built cruise-ships: The "Wilhelm Gustloff" was put into service in April 1938.
Built for 1471 passengers,it had a crew of 426.
It was a "class-less" ship built to allow ordinary people to go on a cruise to foreign destinations. Foreign exchange was short in supply,so that the passengers,among them youth-groups of the HJ and BDM, had not much to spend off board,but were able,nevertheless,to have a glimps at "the world". It was one of the many programms by the "Kraft durch Freude" organization,founded by the Nazi-government.
When the war started,the "Wilhelm Gustloff" was transformed into a hospital-ship and later became a barrack-ship for the second submarine training division.
When due to the advancing Russian Army,the division was dissolved,the ship was used to transport military and civilian refugees from Eastern-Prussia to the West.
On January 30th,1945,the ship was torpedoed by an russian submarine.
It is not known exactly how many people were on board,but likely more than 10.000. There were 1250 survivers,the rest perished,making it the worst ship-desaster ever.
Stamp issued Nov.4th,1937.
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Post by hrdoktorx on Jun 19, 2021 14:12:04 GMT
Nice arrival today, this copy of German East Africa MiNr. 15, the Hohenzollern 15 pesa orange on salmon paper:  |
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